West Coast LEAF News

It is no surprise that women who aspire to leadership positions in their careers often face an uphill battle, especially when they experience racism, transphobia, homophobia, ableism, and other forms of discrimination in combination with sexism. In BC, a
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A week ago, millions of people in Vancouver, Washington, DC and around the world took to the streets to sound a clarion call for our political leaders to respect women’s rights as human rights. Today, West Coast LEAF, as
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A bit about this amazing woman: Long time CBC News host Gloria Macarenko takes the host seat on B.C. Almanac connecting British Columbians through conversation. She also hosts The Story from Here, a national Radio One show that brings
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Imagine being confined in a prison cell for up to 23 hours a day. Imagine living in a cell with Plexiglas walls where the lights don’t go out. Imagine not knowing how long you’ll stay there. Imagine not getting
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Fighting for your rights within the bureaucracy of some administrative law regimes can be daunting, confusing, and disempowering. When you’re challenging the denial of workers compensation or income assistance benefits, the last thing you need is a complex set
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Reporting sexual assault is an act of courage. No one who comes forward about an experience of sexual violence should be met with character attacks, insinuations that she was ‘asking for it,’ or blame for failing to fight off
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How do Canadian women’s rights measure up internationally? As it turns out, not so well. It is tempting to think that the state of women’s inequality at home would not warrant international attention. And yet, last week the UN
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The legal profession got a little less equal today, as the BC Court of Appeal (“BCCA”) has dismissed an appeal regarding the Law Society of BC’s rejection of the proposed law school at Trinity Western University (“TWU”). Having a
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Today, we’re in Geneva joining other feminist lawyers and NGOs to speak up for BC women’s rights at the United Nations. As the international spotlight shines on Canada’s track record on women’s human rights, BC is caught in the
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West Coast LEAF is the only organization in BC that uses the law to further gender equality. We work to end gender-based discrimination using equality rights litigation, law reform, and public legal education.